blight, blast, load, pressure.
     pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint; hard
times, bad times, sad times; rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind; visitation, infliction; affliction &c. (painfulness) 830; bitter pill; care, trial; the sport of fortune.
     mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune; disaster, calamity,
catastrophe; accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub; backset[obs3], comedown, setback [U.S.].
     losing game; falling &c. v.; fall, downfall; ruination, ruinousness;
undoing; extremity; ruin &c. (destruction) 162. 
     V. be ill off &c. adj.; go hard with; fall on evil, fall on evil days;
go on ill; not prosper &c. 734.
     go downhill, go to rack and ruin &c. (destruction) 162, go to the
dogs; fall, fall from one’s high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one’s gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp’s nest about one’s ears, bring a hornet’s nest about one’s ears. 
     Adj. unfortunate, unblest[obs3], unhappy, unlucky; improsperous[obs3],
unprosperous; hoodooed [U.S.]; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor &c. 804; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one’s utmost need.
     planet-struck, devoted; born under an evil star, born with a wooden
ladle in one’s mouth; ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened.
     adverse, untoward; disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.

     #736.  Mediocrity. —­ N. moderate circumstances, average
circumstances; respectability; middle classes; mediocrity; golden mean &c. (mid-course) 628, (moderation) 174. 
     V. jog on; go fairly, go quietly, go peaceably, go tolerably, go
respectably, get on fairly, get on quietly, get on peaceably, get on tolerably, get on respectably.

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SECTION I. GENERAL INTERSOCIAL VOLITION % —­ Implying the action of the will of one mind over the will of another. —­

     #737.  Authority.—­ N. authority; influence, patronage, power,
preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction; right &c. (title) 924; direction &c. 693; government &c. 737a.
     divine right, dynastic rights, authoritativeness; absoluteness,
absolutism; despotism; jus nocendi[Lat]; jus divinum[Lat].
     mastery, mastership, masterdom[obs3]; dictation, control.
     hold, grasp; grip, gripe; reach; iron sway &c. (severity) 739; fangs,
clutches, talons; rod of empire &c. (scepter) 747.
     [Vicarious authority] commission &c. 755; deputy &c.759; permission
&c. 760. 
     V. authorize &c. (permit) 760; warrant &c. (right) 924; dictate &c.